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[blizzerd]

so i tried a +50 fort for a change

i have a fort of 200 dwarfs, 100 of them do nothing but haul stuff around

stuff isnt hauled around, i dont use burrows and my stockpiles remain empty and workshops cluttered

a small portion does get hauled, but like 75 of my haulers are hanging around in the statue park doing nothing (no job)

its the 12th year now in the forts existence and i made a LOT of stuff, could it be some kind of AI problem that makes it creep to a halt over time? or just too much stuff to haul? i didnt get this problem untill year 8 or so and its becoming worse and worse

[blizzerd]

anyone? im pretty desperate

food is starting to rot etc, lots of mouths to feed

might have to start an aggressive eugenics program to cut down on mouths to feed, but then again wont my haulers go down too?

[Zorromorph]

Do you a save to have people look at?  I'd recommend not playing the fort for a bit to see if there is an answer.  The obvious stuff to check would be if stuff you want hauled is forbidden, or if the right hauling labors are on.  But as a general problem it's not one I've ever seen, though I don't yet have a fort of that size in this version. 

[WagonWheel]

For food do you have enough barrels? Or for other things bins? Try making some if you don't and you can make rooms and fill them with furniture for nobles/for fun to get the haulers to do something.

[Fredd]

Also check orders. You might have mistakenly forbid certain things to collect/haul

[nenjin]

Have you tried specializing some of those haulers, like setting some to only haul food?

[blizzerd]

Have you tried specializing some of those haulers, like setting some to only haul food?

no, trying that now


its not forbidden ether, i am "short-ish" (no wood embark) on barrels and bins too, but working on that now il tell if its fixed

[blizzerd]

new reply for fixed problem

the stockpiles i made were all made by using the "custom" stockpile function, and on all of those i somehow disabled both "allow plant/animal, and allow non-plant/animal option (so basically nothing in the world applied for those stockpiles) however, the section remained lit up as if it allowed everything (bug?) only looking at it in detail revealed the entire list was disabled

with your suggestions however i was able to make my haulers double as efficient as they were before, i learned that specific haul actions for specific dwarves makes you able to say what haul tasks are more important (assign more haulers) and thus improves productivity

thanks all

[celem]

I think the custom stockpile option stays lit regardless, even if you actually filter out every imaginable item.  I generally play such massive 200-300 dwarf forts, often for 15-20 years and I've never noticed any problems with the AI at the top end (beyond the expected FPS impact)

[blizzerd]

yea, i can run it with 100 fps with 200 dwarfs so i decided like "why the heck not" since ive only played this game with popcap of 50 (easier and every dwarf has a determined function)